“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object,
and you shall find a way around or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid,
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle.
Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” -Bruce Lee
The water looks _ for swimming.
The waves are _ when there is wind.
The water probably feels _ and _ .
What do you think it means to "be water"?
What does it mean that the water becomes the cup?
Bruce Lee is explaining an important concept of Taoism: if you resist life, it will crash you. Life is bigger than you, but if you flow with life you will find a way through it. You will go over the obstacles, like a river flows through hills and mountains.
VOCABULARY Be - tells people how to act My Friend - shows he cares about the people who read this Be Water, My Friend - he explains the wisdom he learned from watching water
EMPTY YOUR MIND= Stop thinking.
The suffix –LESS means “without” and is used to make adjectives: noun + -less = adjective. -FORMLESS= Without form (shape) -heartless= without a heart (feelings) -hopeless= without hope (desperate) -lifeless= without life (like dead) -SHAPELESS= Without shape (form)
FLOW= Move like a river, smoothly going round obstacles instead of crashing into them.
CRASH= Collide, bump. To break violently or noisily; smash.
Red Book Unit 2
Be Water
“Be like water making its way through cracks.
Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object,
and you shall find a way around or through it.
If nothing within you stays rigid,
Empty your mind, be formless.
Shapeless, like water.
If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle.
Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
-Bruce Lee
The water looks _ for swimming.
The waves are _ when there is wind.
The water probably feels _ and _ .
What do you think it means to "be water"?
What does it mean that the water becomes the cup?
Bruce Lee is explaining an important concept of Taoism: if you resist life, it will crash you. Life is bigger than you, but if you flow with life you will find a way through it. You will go over the obstacles, like a river flows through hills and mountains.
VOCABULARY
Be - tells people how to act
My Friend - shows he cares about the people who read this
Be Water, My Friend - he explains the wisdom he learned from watching water
EMPTY YOUR MIND= Stop thinking.
The suffix –LESS means “without” and is used to make adjectives:
noun + -less = adjective.
-FORMLESS= Without form (shape)
-heartless= without a heart (feelings)
-hopeless= without hope (desperate)
-lifeless= without life (like dead)
-SHAPELESS= Without shape (form)
FLOW= Move like a river, smoothly going round obstacles instead of crashing into them.
CRASH= Collide, bump. To break violently or noisily; smash.